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US neighbours' network Nextdoor buys UK's Streetlife

neo2001 — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 18:20:05 +0000

Article URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38879239

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13582302

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by neo2001 in "Hello admins of EU AWS systems – DNS outage in eu-west-1"

neo2001 — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 02:32:48 +0000

6:29 PM PST We have identified the root cause of the DNS resolution issues in the EU-WEST-1 Region and continue working towards resolution.

New comment by neo2001 in "Hello admins of EU AWS systems – DNS outage in eu-west-1"

neo2001 — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 02:31:46 +0000

sigh

Life is Short

neo2001 — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 14:29:28 +0000

Article URL: http://www.paulgraham.com/vb.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12845945

Points: 36

# Comments: 11

RCP 11 – Stream data type proposal for Redis

neo2001 — Sun, 05 Jun 2016 10:06:15 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/redis/redis-rcp/blob/master/RCP11.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11840314

Points: 125

# Comments: 16

New comment by neo2001 in "Gordon: a tool to create, wire and deploy AWS Lambdas"

neo2001 — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 11:26:05 +0000

Oh yes there is :D

New comment by neo2001 in "Gordon: a tool to create, wire and deploy AWS Lambdas"

neo2001 — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 10:32:41 +0000

(Author of Gordon here)

I think the people from serverless (and apex) are doing an amazing job evangelizing about the benefits of server-less infrastructures and they have amazing projects they should be quite proud of.

Than been said, I think both projects walk different paths in order to achieve similar goals.

What is different with other approaches?

* Isolation is one of the most important things for us. Each of the stages of your application are deployed into independent Cloudformation stacks.

* We don't stream commands to the AWS api. Every single of your resources are created using CF.

* We respect the tooling of each of the runtimes so javascript, java or python developers should not get exposed to software they are not use to.

* Convention over configuration. Perhaps this is because my background is the Python/Django ecosystem, but writing 200 lines configuration files in JSON feels completely wrong to me.

* Documentation documentation documentation: Again, perhaps I've been badly educated by the Django community, but documentation and examples are (for me) the most important thing a project like this should have. That's why gordon's documentation is quite complete (I would say) and we have more than 20 example project including integrations with Slack, Telegram, Twilio... and AWS services such as Kinesis, Dynamodb, Apigateway, S3, Cloudwatch Events, Cloudwatch Scheduled Events, etc...

I think is an amazing moment to be involved in the server-less community and we'll all benefit from a thriving ecosystem like this :D

New comment by neo2001 in "Gordon: Serverless Architecures Using AWS Lambda"

neo2001 — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 10:30:20 +0000

I think the people from serverless (and apex) are doing an amazing job evangelizing about the benefits of server-less infrastructures and they have an amazing project they should be quite proud of.

Than been said, I think both projects walk different paths in order to achieve similar goals.

What is different with other approaches?

* Isolation is one of the most important things for us. Each of the stages of your application are deployed into independent Cloudformation stacks.

* We don't stream commands to the AWS api. Every single of your resources are created using CF.

* We respect the tooling of each of the runtimes so javascript, java or python developers should not get exposed to software they are not use to.

* Convention over configuration. Perhaps this is because my background is the Python/Django ecosystem, but writing 200 lines configuration files in JSON feels completely wrong to me.

I think is an amazing moment to be involved in the server-less community and we'll all benefit from a thriving ecosystem like this :D

New comment by neo2001 in "Gordon: Serverless Architecures Using AWS Lambda"

neo2001 — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 09:25:55 +0000

(Author here)Any feedback about this project would be much appreciated! Hope this tool is useful for somebody out there!

New comment by neo2001 in "AWS Lambda Is Not Ready for Prime Time"

neo2001 — Mon, 23 May 2016 11:33:50 +0000

It makes it easy to deploy Lambdas and integrate them with those services. Underneath uses CloudFormation to orchestrate it

New comment by neo2001 in "AWS Lambda Is Not Ready for Prime Time"

neo2001 — Mon, 23 May 2016 09:52:57 +0000

Don't want to hijack the thread (sorry) but I've been working for the last 10 months in a tool which might be of the interest of people reading this article.

This tool will be opensource in the following weeks, but at the moment is in closed beta. I'm looking for people interested in giving it a look. If you are interested, drop me an email to me[at]jorgebastida.com and I'll invite you to the repo.

tl;dr version: Dead simple Lambda+Kinesis+Dynamodb+S3+CloudWatch+Apigateway over Cloudformation with support for Python, Javascript, Java, Go etc... Lot's of examples including Telegram, Twilio, Slack... and quite extensive documentation (which I think is the key of adoption of a technology like this).